NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

ATI Radeon HD 3550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 6.336GB/s)

2520 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +18385%

8.873 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3550

0.048 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

Radeon HD 3550

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Aug 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

6.336GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

40

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.376 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.376 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

47.52 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

180W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DisplayPort

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV620

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV620 PRO (215-0670006)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.181 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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